There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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